Police Say Student Missing for 100 Days Hanged Himself

Local police confirmed that a 15-year-old high school student missing in East China for more than 100 days had died by suicide by hanging himself with his shoelaces, establishing an official cause of death in the high-profile case.

At a press conference Thursday, Jiangxi province police said an investigation, autopsy and physical evidence analysis determined that Hu Xinyu hanged himself from a tree in a grain depot compound on Jinji Mountain, about a five-minute walk from his school dormitory.